I am a researcher involved in a new interdisciplinary
initiative on quantitative biology
at Rutgers University. I hold a joint appointment at the
department of Physics and Astronomy as well as at the recently formed
BioMaPS
Institute. Before I joined Rutgers, I was in
the Theoretical Physics Group at the Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill.
My research interest spanned condensed matter theory, communication systems
and biological networks.

I am currently interested in a "multi-scale" integrative study of the
design of bio-molecular networks. In
particular, I have been working on the consequences of relatively non-specific
biomolecular interactions from the perspectives of biophysics,
bioinformatics, systems
biology and evolutionary theory. One specific question that we studied is the
variability of binding sites of high pleiotropy transcription factors.
Jointly with Boris Shraiman, I have also set up a wet lab that explores
these questions experimentally. Viji Nagaraj has
been doing experiments on DNA-protein interactions in E. Coli in
the lab.